History:

Project FLAME began in 1990, funded by a three-year Curriculum Innovation
Grant from IBM. The early years of the project focused on the use of
technology to improve learning in the foreign language
classroom. Four pedagogical models were developed to facilitate this:
the Teacher's Partner(TP), the
Learner's Partner(LP), the Exploratory Mode
and the Creative Mode.

Once the models had been established, FLAME then began designing applications
using the TP and LP models in Spanish, French, and Hebrew.
Russian, Polish and German are currently under development. Spanish
and English applications are presently being constructed utilizing the
the Exploratory and Creative Modes.

This work is primarily funded by three federal grants: two from the US
Department of Education and one from the National Endowment for the
Humanities. The project has also received donations from the Goethe
Institute, the Focus Grant, and support from The University of
Michigan.